From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qx1Wo-0002Xx-E7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:53:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5016421C3C5; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913C321C31D for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so3955152vws.40 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:52:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HicT12sRyG5ExwXFeduPNSc67tc2KjzE5Y7W637555Q=; b=FZmXJMsLrWHK3Iqz+imVVYJtB01frsTRLqALgLIvWAWdog8h0hyKKNym0SEuyMZGqw AS/uvUUadC5d17zdEG8kWxV1E5cehaP3JfdBvmKY+b9GFS08nT6xYAeIO64jiJ5A9mDT PA0rFJm4aHwGZDkWX1JkE2b50LEet9VyX37zg= Received: by 10.52.69.79 with SMTP id c15mr1644431vdu.209.1314384727088; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.160.1 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:51:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:51:47 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ogxubckTy5n4iM-rwYm3uYx5kjc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 14982830a6093a8208f6aee1b911b6f1 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, James wrote: > Does Gentoo maintain an =A0online index with brief > description of each so one can make a guess as to > which packages might be useful to him? Yep, http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ is the main site. And there is a third-party site: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ And for searching/browsing layman overlays there is: http://gpo.zugaina.org= /